Improvement in apparatus for pitching barrels



G. SICHLER. Apparatus: for Pitching Barrels. 139,976.

Patented June 17, 18 73.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,976, dated June 17, 1873; application filed May 24, 1873.

To all rwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE SIcHLER, of New York city, and county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Keg Cooling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a top view of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same taken through the line x x, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the same taken through the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an end View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. v

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved apparatus for rolling beer-kegs after they have been pitched to keep the pitch spread over the inner surface of the kegs until they have become so cool that the pitch will not iiow. The invention consists in the three cross-bars, the sixposts grooved upon their inner sides, the two adjustable crossbars, the two skids, the adjustable blocks, their connecting-round, andi the tilting and weighted skid, constructed and operating in connection with each other as hereinafter fully described.

A are two parallel bars that form the base of the apparatus, and which are connected at or near each end by two cross-bars, B C, and near their rear ends by a third cross-bar, D. To each end of each of the cross-bars B C D is attached a post, E, the inner side of which is grooved vertically. In the grooves ofthe posts E of the crossbars B D are placed the tenons formed upon the ends of the cross-bars F G, which are supported adjustably in place by pins H passed through said posts, and upon which the said tenons rest. Several holes are formed in the post E to receive the said pins, so that the bars F G can be adjusted as required. I J are two frames or skids, each of which consists of two longitudinal bars connected and held in their proper relative positions by rounds or cross-bars. The lower frame or skid I rests upon the crossbars B D, and the upper one J upon the adjustable cross-bars F G. The cross-bar F should be a little higher than the other G, so

that the frame or skid J may incline to the rearward. K are two blocks upon the outer sides of which are formed tongues to lit into the grooves of the posts E of the crossbar C, where they are supported adjustably in place by pins H passed through holes in the said posts E. To the blocks K are attached the ends of a round, L, to which are pivoted the bars M, the outer or rear ends of which are connected by a cross-bar, N. From the crossbar N is supported a weight, O, of sufficient size to hold the forward ends of the bars M suspended so as to rest against the lower side of the rear ends of the upper skid J.

With this construction the kegs are placed upon the forward or upper end of the upper skid J, down which they roll and pass upon the skidM N, when their weight overbalances the weight O, and tilts the said skid M N until the forward ends of its side bars M come in contact with the upper side of the rear end of the lower skid I, along which the kegs roll connected by a cross-bar, P, to serve as a guard to prevent the kegs from passing off the rear end of the tilting-skid MN O, should they acquire too great a velocity in passing down the inclined skid J.

vHaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-e- The cross-bars B C D, the posts E grooved upon their inner sides, the adjustable cross bars F G, the skids I J, the adjustable blocks K, the round L, and the tilting and weighted skid M N O, constructed and arranged to operate in connection with each other substantially as herein shown and described.

. GEORGE SICHLER.

Witnesses:

J AMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MOSHER. 

